The Best Science Fiction of the Year 8

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Ballantine Del Rey, 1979. First edition. Collects 12 top science fiction stories from 1978. Includes introduction and "recommended reading" list from editor Terry Carr , "The Science Fiction Year (1978)" essay by Charles N. Brown , and these works: “The Barbie Murders” by John Varley ”A Hiss of Dragon” by Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw ”Black Glass” by Fritz Leiber "To Bring in the Steel" by Donald Kingsbury "The Very Slow Time Machine" by Ian Watson "Devil You Don't Know" by Dean Ing "Count the Clock That Tells the Time" by Harlan Ellison “View from a Height” by Joan D. Vinge ”The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck” by Hilbert Schenck ”Vermeer's Window” by Gordon Eklund ”The Man Who Had No Idea” by Thomas M. Disch ”Death Therapy” by James Patrick Kelly